Ask HN: How often you have the occasion to see bad written code.

[alecszaharia]

How often you have the occasion to see bad written code that make you laugh or that make you ask WTF?

[willvarfar]

I see bad code all the time. Some of it is even worse than my own.

I might have laughed or exclaimed WTF? or such once. When I was young and green.

Now I am just sadly empty.

[mailarchis]

"Any code not written by me is bad code, And if i do write bad code i make it sure never to look at it again" ---

[veyron]

Every line of code that I've written in a language other than C or x86/amd64 assembly makes me laugh in retrospect. Maybe because every day I learn about new features in other languages (for example, today I found out about collections.defaultdict, which would easily have saved me about 100 lines of code across all of my scripts)

[stonemetal]

I have been programming professionally for about 5 years now. So I would say every (working) day for the past 5 years.

[jeggers5]

Whenever I'm frustrated with something, bad code just appears on my screen.

[petervandijck]

About as often as I see badly written questions.

[damncabbage]

Every day. My current job involves integrating an old thrown-together system with a very old thrown-together system.

[LarryA]

Go to just about any programming language tutorial site, you will most likely see bad code.